Mop



W. D. ROSE April 29, 1941.

MOP

Filed June 23, 1958 Patented Apr. 29, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MOP William D. Rose, Portland, Oreg. Application June 23, 1938, Serial No. 215,469

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in mops.

The prime object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective means for attaching the mop to the mop head.

A further object of the invention is to provide a convenient and simple head to detachably secure the mop to the head.

A still further object of the invention is to provide new and improved means for mounting the handle on the mop head.

These and other advantages will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved mop and head.

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the mop.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the mop head.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In the form of the invention disclosed in Figs. 1 to 4, l indicates a mop head which maybe in the form of a solid piece or a frame and may be elongated as shown, round, or other shape. The edges of the head I are formed with channels 2, with open slits 3. A boss or enlargement 4 is formed on the top of the head to receive the base 5 of a ferrule 6, bolted in place by a screw and nut 1. The boss is semi-circular and is adjustable through the medium of openings 8 in the base 5, through any one of which the bolt 1 may be passed.

The mop 9 comprises a band l0, between which the usual threads or strings H are secured. On the band are ribs l2 having webs formed of canvas or other material, and at the ends of the band are suitable fastening elements l3; in the instance shown, buckles are employed.

In this form of the invention, to assemble the mop and head, the ribs l2 are fitted in the head and the mop band ends are drawn together and buckled or otherwise fastened.

The ribs efi'ectively hold the mop to the head, and when the ends are buckled, it is impossible for the parts to become separated. The ferrule is adjusted to the desired angle by fitting the screw or bolt 1 in the selected opening 8.

In the form shown particularly in Figures 1 to 4 inclusive, the mop head is of flat elongated form with the ends rounded, and the upper surface parallel to the lower surface, except for an upstanding projection centrally of the upper surface to support the handle connector. The band H1 in which the mop proper is received is provided with ribs 12 and is of such length as to extend materially above the upper flat surface of the head and below the lower fiat surface thereof. This utilizes the band which is necessarily of more resistant material than the mop threads, as a means for shielding any furniture or other article, with which the mop may come in contact, from the solid edge of the head.

What I claim is:

A mop head of elongated, fiat form having round-ed ends, the upper surface having a central projection to receive the handle connection and being otherwise parallel with the lower surface, the mop head being formed with a channel extending through the full length of the sides: of the head and opening through the rounded ends, the channel opening through the side edges of the head throughout their full length, with a relatively narrow slot, a mop band of inverted U- shaped form and flexible material formed with a projection to accurately fit in the channel and to be entered therein through the open ends at the rounded end of the head, the projection having a. narrow web, and mop material secured within the inverted U-shaped band, the width of the band and the position at which the web of the projection adjoins said band being such that the upper end of the band extends above the upper flat surface of the head and the lower end of the band extends below the lower flat surface of the head.

WILLIAM D. ROSE. 

